I live on the County Antrim coast Northern Ireland...my dad's family are Irish and my mother's grandmother was Ashkenazi Jewish. My wee country is so beautiful with over 40 shades of green grass and beautiful coastal scenery...but it rains a lot!
My maternal family is mostly Irish (my grandmother always corrected, “Scots-Irish”) I learned that my family were found in the Antrim region. I have several relatives with red hair & blue eyes. My family’s name is McManus. I’m pretty sure that there’s distant relatives that still exist there.
Hello. That means your mother was Jewish and so are you. Unfortunately, unless you married a Jewish female, it ended with you, as it passes only from the female. If you have a sister, then she and her children are Jewish. Many Irish Jews came from Europe while others arrived via Scotland, who became the Kosher butchers who set up in West Belfast. Sounds like you live in the Glens. Doubt there is a Synagogue within 50 mile of you. The first Chief Rabbi of Israel was the Rabbi in Belfast. His son (born in Belfast) became the President of Israel. His grandson is the current President of Israel. I’m from Ballymena and as my wife is Jewish all the children are Jewish. They all have girls, so the link continues for at least one more generation. I understand largest Jewish community in Ireland is in Cork, as many have moved from Dublin. The Synagogue in King William Rd Belfast is quite nice. Glasgow still has a sizeable community. Shalom.
I’m Irish, French and Cherokee. My eyes are green and my hair is red. I’ve had a lot of injuries and I keep surviving them all. I’m proud to be Irish ☘️ American. I was told that I’m Celtic. I can endure a lot of pain, but I need a lot more pain relief than others. ❤
I am the same Scotts Irish. I didn't get the full green eyes but hazel. My sister & son have green eyes. I am the same with pain & require more for pain relief.
Me too - I was told when having my babies that I can’t be ready yet to deliver - when they measured - She was already crowning - I fractured my back , a rib in 2 places - a shoulder blade and 1 more rib - never cried or cried out - no one believed me until they looked at the x-rays each time . Names Murphy Shades of Queen Boudicca?
@ my sister has beautiful red hair, but her eyes are brown and she hates me for having green eyes. I also have larger breasts that I inherited from my mother and grandmother. Both of my sisters were small and they didn’t like me having them. I felt bad about it because they stuck out and I couldn’t help it. If I had known to use an ace bandage on them I would have done that to myself. Being a teenager was not easy for me.
I have green eyes and 50% Irish ancestry. Pain meds do not work for me, it's crazy. Even lidocaine, I need huge amounts to numb up well. I have a high pain tolerance supposedly
I was adopted in 1955. I was told I was 50-50 Scot-English. When I turned 68 I learned thru testing I was really 87% Irish, some significant Welsh and a scant sprinkling of all those travelers. Suddenly it all made sense.
just out of curiosity, do you live in Ireland? I was adopted and did my dna and got 60% Southern Ireland, 37% Hebrides Scotland, 2% Uk and 2% Germanic (which could include danish etc). But I've never been there. Lots of Irish ppl have small amounts of Scottish dna as they are basically genetic cousins and travelled back and forth.
I know my great grandparents & great great grandparents came from glendalough on both sides, going back to the late 1700's to the early 1800's , I found out , from listing to my grandad who was an amazing man , he used to tell amazing stories 😍❤️🔥🇮🇪
@MollyMalone-kq9iw I’m from the Kennas or McKennas who fought with the O’Neils to uphold the clan Tyrone (kingdom). They earned land and money but the Tyrone’s were usurped and Kennas had to round begging prior enemies for help. Eventually jumping over to west of Scotland in droves to try for a living.
@MollyMalone-kq9iw my grandfather met up with his colleagues after jumping on a boat from Ireland as a child to his ‘freedom.’ They called him Kenna the old Irish name before the Mc part was introduced which was similar to the O’ in O’Neil for example. The uk treated Irish like immigrant slaves and he couldn’t get anything but physical work, navvying. He was self educated and could draw, (I got that gene) and hated religious bias. He married my grandma when they were 18 and 16. Him a born Catholic and her a Protestant. Totally outrageous and a slur to society! But I’ve inherited his swagger to a point and disregard for the extreme gnashing of cn others and remain bonded to my intuition or genetic strengths, or call it what you will. None of us fall far from the tree.
@Saffy-yr8vo brilliant , I loved listening to my grandad telling me stories about his grandparents etc & his experience of the black and tans , he said he was only a small child & you would hear them coming & the neighbours would grab the children and bring them into their houses. There are not enough people who sit down and listen to old people , but when you do , as you know , they have went through so much , they have so much experience to pass onto those who listen and it's how we learn about our family members who we never met that passed long ago and to look back at photos from the 1800's 😍 You really have studied you're family tree , well done to you 💯 Thanks for sharing you story 💚🕊️🧡
My husband is 98% Irish. I’m 66%. I (and my sister, who inherited a bit differently than me) have Swedish and even Icelandic DNA among Scottish, English, and a few others from the mainland. I’m a Lyons on mom’s side and just found out this month that my unknown paternal grandfather was also a Lyons! No, my parents were not related to each other. GEDmatch confirmed that. Great video!
My great grandmother was a Lyons, our Irish ancestors having relocated to Dubuque Iowa USA in the 1800's. Several tombstones say they were born in late 1700's in County Caven, Ireland.
@ My maternal great-grandmother was a McGovern from County Cavan. My maternal Lyons family is from Clydagh, Roscommon. If you google “Annie Lyons Lusitania” you’ll find info on my grandfather’s cousin who went down on the Lusitania. My paternal Lyons grandfather’s family is from County Cork.
One of the traits you have left out are the Black Irish(not African) Those with dark skin, black hair and dark eyes. Many even called 'Blackie Quinn, Blacky Thompson to name a few! I have Irish in my ancestry and I am often taken for Italian, Greek, Jewish, etc. My maternal grandfather was also very dark complected.
Were Irish, my husband looks like this as does his mother. It goes back as far as a photo of his great grandfather. He has dark skin and jet black hair. It's thought to come from the Spanish armada that got wrecked off the coast of Ireland in 1588. Many of the male survivors stayed and married Irish women. I'd love to see our DNA profiles but I don't trust the companies with that information.
The black hair and blue eyes were from Spanish Point. The Spanish Armada would regularly crash on to the rocks there and have to do extensive repairs. They left behind their genes 😊
Done a DNA test and it states that I am 100% Irish, blew my mind, although not surprising as I am Irish 😅.. but honestly thought I would have some other mix in there. But I’m happy 👌🏻
Haha, it reminds me of WWDITS' character Colin Robinson's DNA test results showing he was 100 % white. Guillermo's initial response was basically, that can't be... everyone is a mixture. But nope, lol, Colin showed him the hard copy.
I always say that my DNA (94% Irish with a little Scottish and English thrown in) makes me white, white and more white. My daughter was so pale that she looked like a ghost. My mother has 100% Irish genes so I blame my father's side for mucking it up. Both sides of my family are from Donegal County, one in the far North and one in the South.
@@mzab0003 yep I certainly get the pale complexion theory alright a lot of us Irish are almost translucent 😅😅😅.. County Donegal is great part of the country. I’m from Dublin the city, so it’s great to escape from time to time to the country side.. good for the soul.
@aido3335 DNA only tells you a very small part of your ancestry, your most recent ancestry. You inherit 50% each DNA from both parents. Meaning there are 50% each you haven't inherited. You may have ancestors from other places, but you didn't inherit any or too small to count.
If the robot had been programmed to speak an Irish accent, it would have improved this video vastly. Why not? It can be done. BTW, replacing the AI images with real ones or art would improve it a lot, too.
The number of Irish with red and blonde hair, mostly increased via the Viking Invasions which were many throughout Ireland. Dublin, (Viking name) Waterford (Water-fjord) Wexford (Wex-fjord) were all Viking settlements.
The Romans (1000 years before the Vikings) described the Irish as having reddish hair and blue eyes. The Irish have a higher proportion (90%+) of blue-eyed people than Scandinavia. The Vikings did NOT give the Irish their blue eyes.
That's oft repeated and just not true. The Vikings didn't leave as much DNA as people thought and also..red hair was here in large numbers a long long time before the Norse or Danes came robbing our stuff.
Phytophthora infestans commonly known as Potato Late Blight, resulted in at least 1,000,000 Irish dying of starvation and another 1,000,000 immigrating. This occured between 1845-1852. Many of the Irish came to America. Phytophthora infestans is a fungus like microorganism. We now understand it and can control it.
I’m Scots of 97% Southern Irish descent. My dna said I’m also Scandinavian and Finnish. They suggested one group settled in Orkney or extreme North Scotland too.Then moved down. My dad’s cousins were all 6ft 5in tall with bright red hair. He was 6ft 2 black hair. But my mum had physical Viking features and they told me they could tell from her genes, mine. The Vikings were described by others as ‘big boned’. Recently proved that Vikings were mercenaries with other tribes including the Greeks. I’m obsessed with anything Greek and the country. Visited many times. Starts to make sense. Also the Finnish had the green eyes like mine. And were crafts and jewellers and artists. Snap!
Are you American by nationality? What you have said here sounds to me very much like how an American might think of their ancestry. It sounds very different to how Scottish or Irish people would think of their ancestry.
@@SharonBoland-ui3ns It's the way you think about it. When I first read where you said "I’m Scots of 97% Southern Irish descent" I assumed you are Scottish, and wondered what your background was. I thought you probably didn't descend from the largest group of emigrants who left for Scotland in the century after the famine, as they were mainly from the northern part of Ireland, not the southern part. But then "Southern Irish descent" didn't make any sense to me anyway as Ireland is a small island and there is very little distance between north, east, south and west. And there only seems to be a minor DNA variation in Ireland and it is between east and west, as most later immigrants from Great Britain to Ireland settled in the east (from the middle ages on). That is my understanding from the last dna stuff I read, but it might be out of date. It struck me that the way you might think about these things, if you come from a vast country like America, is different to how you would think about it if you were from a smallish countries like Ireland or Scotland. Also, you used the term "north Scotland" instead of "north of Scotland" and that also made me think you weren't Scottish, and possibly American. But you have an Irish surname, and one that is not as common in the north of Ireland as it is in the south. So who knows, I was just curious, lol.
@@user-fh1rz1uq6c the Southern Irish is a give away.... you have either IRISH dna or you dont. There is NO difference, It's strictly a political divide.
How does one have "physical Viking features"? Vikings were not a race or a specific ethnicity if people, being a Viking meant that one lived their life a certain way. Being a Viking was more of a way of life or occupation than an ethnicity or race. While Vikings primarily came from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), the term "Viking" referred to their activities (raiding, trading, exploration) rather than their origin or genetic makeup. In essence: "Viking" was a job title or a description of a lifestyle, not a racial or ethnic identity. Vikings came from various backgrounds and engaged in a wide range of activities, including raiding, trading, exploration, and settlement. The term "Viking" referred to a shared culture and way of life rather than a specific ethnicity or race. Evidence supporting this: DNA studies show Vikings had diverse genetic backgrounds, including those from southern Europe, the British Isles, and the Baltic region. Archaeological evidence suggests that people from different regions and backgrounds adopted Viking culture and practices. The term "Viking" itself is derived from the Old Norse word "víkingr," which means "pirate" or "raider," highlighting the activity rather than the origin of those who engaged in it.
@@susanlbk Agree. I just meant in the common (not ‘correct’) way general public would describe as Viking, blonde or red haired but as you say the ‘Vikings’ descended to the northern hemispheres from the east and southern parts of the world. There’s a good vid on here shows they were from Baltic and southern Europe etc.But we’re all such a mix now anyway. Which is even more interesting! However I discovered around the end of the Greek AND Roman empires I think? They sent for ‘Viking’ mercenaries to be used as bodyguards for the rich to protect them ostensibly from the plebs! Who were revolting. As they were taller and ‘bigger boned’ and not scared of a fight. Paying them in gold and inviting them to stay and integrate with locals. Or they could choose to return home freely. I just like the idea up until I read this that my obsession with Greece (not other EU countries I’ve visited) was a puzzle! And that maybe there IS such a thing as inherited memory. A subject my friends and me find interesting too. OR when Rome invaded England they obvs took slaves back to Italy for wars they were fighting further east to use them as soldiers.
I'm Irish-American and my DNA shows 99% Northern European and 1% Southern European. The DNA also has about 4% of Neanderthal genetic influences. I think that it's a common trait in many Northern European cultures.
I think, from reading, the most people have a 2% genetic marker to Neanderthal dna. So 4%s quite high. It's so amazing that we can now track our genetic history. I definitely want the genetic test done. I know my recent history as far as grandparents in Ireland and my Dad but it will be fascinating to delve deeper
Have higher than normal Neanderthal and was told 2% of it is active in me. Intermingled in my strands. Have issue with gluten. many issues on the scientific chopping block as to health problems associated with it, But also decrease impuse control, adrenaline pathways. Color light sound. Dog whistles scent taste, could spot a mushroom in a crowded forest just by it's hue. Also sensed a few seizure. Hard to say if it is a color a sound, We'l dogs do this and we share much common DNA.
Irish people were paid. Africans were not. Whiteness mattered. There are absolutely no records of Irish slaves in America or here. Irish people could also leave their tenancy but African people could not leave their slavery.
Yes I knew (have read) about the Irish slaves- after the Emancipation Proclamation - slavery didn’t entirely end- Italian immigrants were recruited and became the slaves. Most people aren’t aware if this historical fact,
I took a DNA test and found I had more Scandinavian than I expected. This podcast helps to explain that. My family came to the USA in 1848, during the worst of the Potato Famine. Desperate parents put a 7 year old boy and his 8 year old sister on a boat to America, and the parents died in Ireland. That 7 year old boy, David Thomas McGuire, was my great great grandfather. I don't know where in Ireland he was from.
The Norman’s were the original Vikings and were from Denmark. The Danes also were in control of Norway for several hundred years. The Norse- Norwegians were mainly farmers and fishermen and sea-explorers. They settled the areas of Western and North Western Ireland, The Highlands of Scotland and the islands between both Ireland and Norway and Scotland. Also, the South of Norway has a large DNA heritage from Greece. Red hair and Black or Brown hair with pale blue-violet and hazel- green brown-gold eyes come from Greece with the lightly browned tan skin tones. I discovered this from a deep-dive DNA test that I and my brother did. I’d always wondered how my Southern Norwegian grandmother got her tanned skin tones and black hair with Violet-blue eyes and my mom got dark brown hair with her hazel eyes. My granddad had the pale skin tones with white blonde hair and very bright blue eyes. Mom’s sister got her dad’s coloring and eyes. I got his coloring and eyes but light brown with blonde and reddish mixed highlights and blond when young. Granddad was full Norse too. My Dad’s heritage was Scot-Norse & a bit of Irish-Scots, from long ago, called Dal Riata and English-Welsh-Dane with a bit of French-Swiss and royalty connections on that side going very far back and to the Spencer’s Charles and Diana. That blew us away with great surprise! Also royal connections to ancient Ireland, Scotland, PICTs and Norse! Doing that deep dive shows much more than your surface DNA markers! Try it!
How can your granddad be full norse? That's not a race or ethnicity. Norse" refers to a cultural and linguistic group, not a race, though the concept of a "Nordic race" was historically used, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries, but is now widely discredited. What Norse means: Historically, "Norse" referred to the North Germanic people who spoke Old Norse, a language spoken by Vikings and other inhabitants of Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) during the Viking Age. It encompassed their culture, language, and shared traditions. Modern descendants of Norsemen include Danes, Icelanders, Faroese, Norwegians, and Swedes. The term "Norse" is more accurately described as a cultural or linguistic affiliation rather than a racial one. The Concept of a "Nordic Race": In the past, some anthropologists and others categorized "Nordic" as a race, associating it with certain physical characteristics and traits. This concept was used to justify racist ideologies and discrimination. The idea of a "Nordic race" is now considered outdated and inaccurate. Modern genetics and anthropological research have debunked the notion of distinct human races. In essence, "Norse" is a cultural and linguistic identity, not a racial one. The concept of a "Nordic race" has been refuted by modern science and is associated with discriminatory ideologies.
My Mom had a build up of Iron in her Liver, Causing cancer. She was Irish on her mother side completely. Co. mayo, around the center east of Galway and part of the southwest. Dad was Scotch Irish, some family still there. DNA confirms this.
Wow- - what ALOT of fascinating family stories! I am from a Scots family with all 4 children having fair skin, hazel eyes and red hair. And no, we don't have worse than average tempers! Could not help from chiming in here. My Dad's best friend was Irish. They loved to tell each other tall tales and the laughter was just so infectious. I always thought the reference to the "Black" McDonalds referred to their temperaments! ie - black tempered, easy to anger - but then I had the misfortune of marrying one of these Scots! Anyway, hearing that the reference was to genetics was good info. Great video and fun comments.
I’m 49% Scottish and 17%. Scandinavian, the rest English and north Western Europe. People are people from wherever in the world they come from. Steve Gash. From North Eastern England. My skin is white, I have to sunbathe for two weeks to go slightly off white. Blue eyes too
Did you know and you probably do know! That red heads create their own vitamin D. And red hair only happens when there is red hair on both sides of the family.
You're right, the Turko-mongolian people migrated to Anatolia around the eighth century. Prior to this Anatolia had been Mostly Greek, Armenian, and Kurdish. @@johnhayes8557
To all my Irish and Irish American brothers and sisters, never forget that the English attempted to ban Irish music, dancing and folklore for centuries. It wasn't until the 1920s through the 1960s when the English attempted to save face and make things right by reviving the Celtic arts. Unfortunately, due to the centuries of oppression, Irish natives had lost so much of their culture that Europe had to reach out to American Irish in order to re-learn their own music and folklore. If anyone ever tells you you are not Irish just because you no longer live there, remind them of this. Our history is too precious to be forgotten.
Not too sure where you get your information from, What part of Europe exactly had to reach out to America to bring our culture back? When did England ever try to "save face" for what they done to the Irish? the English didn't attempt to Ban...they did ban punishable by death if they caught us speaking Irish, playing Irish games or gathering in groups of 4 or more. Irish Culture was kept alive by subversive groups of Irish people still living in Ireland.
On my father's side, pure Irish, we can trace back to the 1850s, all with jet black wavy hair, fair skin and blue eyes .. and very tall. Would this be Russian/Ukraine or Iberique DNA? I inherit the fair skin and blue eyes ... and mid red hair from my mothers side ... still traces of Irish decent.
My son is almost 6’5, very fair skin, blue eyes, and dark curly hair. I have some Irish but his dad is very Irish and also fair-skinned, blue eyed, with dark curly hair, as are several of his cousins, his mother and some aunts. I’ve heard it called “Black Irish.” I assumed maybe Portuguese pirates/privateers left their mark.
Irish people have very inconsistent heights, they can range from very short to very tall. Dunno why people are equating tallness with being irish. The average irish person isn't that tall.
Interesting; I see you make no mention of Doggerland and that makes perfect sense. lol I'm female and my testing indicated that one of my parents was 100% Irish (of course that takes into account that the Irish are mix of many people's and simply indicates that my mother's ancestors had been in Ireland a very long time). I'm supposedly 100% British Isles (same thing re a marker of having been in the area thousands of years). My genetic markers indicate by that Mitochondrial DNA (female line) has been in Ireland 5 to 8000 years (possibly since the first settlements)--a particular mutation of that haplogroup, which distinguishes us Irish from the Scotch and English with the same female ancestor, occurred 2500 years ago. That said, my mtDNA is considered a rare haplogroup and we make up a small percentage of the Irish people. Our female line comes from the Doggerland area, and half of the people in the Basque area and half of the Sami people in Finland share that female ancestor. (Apparently, we took the road less travelled to make it to Ireland.) Doggerland likely disappeared in 6150 BCE. At any rate, we're part of the history of Ireland too.
The Celts were also originally from the pontic steppe region of southern Russia and Ukraine as the Celtic language is derived from the proto-Indo-European language root. Almost all of the languages of Europe are derived from this root.
I don't believe you zre right, a small group of people from the Steppes region spoke Proto European, and is believed that most European languages derive from this group, which doesn't mean they came from there.
@@liamoconlocha3264 You are right and I gapped. They could have been people who were invaded (or perhaps peacefully influenced) by a group that came from the steppe region. This is no doubt what happened to the original hunter gatherer populations which according to archaeologist Marija Gimbutus were still living peacefully in central Europe in 4000 BC. And interesting enough, the people of the British Isles still have a high percentage of this early DNA...akin to the DNA of the Basque. This also might help to explain the early Irish reverence for female goddess figures. The Basque revered Mari a Goddess of the mountains. Linguistic connection there with the Catholic Mary.
Please use the name Celts pronounced “Kelt” not Kilt, unless you are saying the word for the wrapped skirting used in Ireland, usually in dark green or the longer version in various Scottish plaids depending on the Clan’s colors and design mix. (Celt- pronounced “selt” is a basketball team name pronunciation, and nothing to do with Ireland or Scotland!)😊
The Roman Empire absorbed the Celts into their empire as Britons, Gauls, Boii, Galatians, and Celtiberians. However, Celtic culture survived in more remote parts of Europe, like Ireland and northern Britain. Red hair and green or blue eyes were traits of the Celtic tribes. @ 1200 BC
My mother was from the 'Irish pale' region. As the commentary states, she was taller than average and also beautiful, in a classical way. Through travel and teaching, I met both Turks and southern Russians. There was a definite 'family resemblance' amongst the latter group and some of the Turks I saw running around Istanbul were indistinguishable from many small, energetic, curly haired Irish men in Ireland and around London. To this day, I get on very well with people from both sides of the Black Sea and frankly ought to be called up to be, at very least, an observer in international negotiations.
@SharonBoland-ui3ns There may be some historical truth in this however I am convinced we, in part, come from the people of this region. The human migration story from the building blocks is generally agreed to be a south to north movement. Entire modern European ethnic groups overlapped on the map of Europe, east to west. This includes the Jewish nation. It's like our DNA in mathematically shared terms, interweaving as one group went north and others west. There is an ancient Irish text which makes reference to our non-Iberian ancestors. The evidence is there, in plain sight, to be seen.
I am descended from Scots-Irish on both sides. We are not sure how long they were in Ireland before continuing on the South-Eastern Appalachia. I have often wondered if they intermixed with the Irish or just sojourned and then immigrated to the US. I suppose a DNA test would reveal the truth. 😂 Thanks for an informative video and Happy New Year! 🎉 🥳
Your ancestors immigrated from Ulster between 1700/1750. The plantation in the 1400s brought the Borderers mainly Scottish Presbyterian’s and English Protestants to Ulster. By the time they immigrated to America and Canada over five generations later they were Irish. The Ulster Irish accent was unique to Ulster, being a mixture of Irish and Scottish Gaelic and English and described locally as the homely tongue or Country method of speaking. The accent you call American and Canadian is the Ulster accent. Remember, there was no Northern Ireland until 1922. The persons in question lived predominately in the Counties of Antrim, Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh with a much lesser number in County Galway. The English in the Southern Counties better known as the Anglo Irish had nothing in common with those who arrived in Ulster from the Border region. The accent of those in the Southern Counties are very different to those in the Northern Counties. Being Catholic or Protestant has nothing to do with it, as they all speak with the same accent. Belfast has a very unique high pitched accent and heavy influenced by a mixture of English and Irish, a City accent. All that music you call hillbilly is thanks to these wonderful frontiers people. The likes of Kit Carson and Jeremiah Johnston and yes Davey Crocket (family immigrated from France to Ireland) Houston, and many of the Kentucky Volunteers. They decimated the English in the battle of Kings Mountain. Washington declared that America would be like Canada but for these brave men and women. Remember it was the English and the Church of England that they hated NOT the Irish. The first President of Irish ancestry was Andrew Jackson who hated the English. The Second was Grant no less whose ancestry was from County Tyrone. All this information is right here on UTube. Unfortunately, they are incorrectly referred to as Scots-Irish which is incorrect. This is in part due to the fact that they didn’t want to be identified with the Irish immigrants who arrived much later from Southern Ireland. 24 Presidents of Irish Ancestry 21 from Ulster and 3 from Southern Ireland. The Mellon Family started life as farmers and ended up with the Mellon Bank. Canada was also heavy influenced by the Ulster Immigrants. The first Church was built near the River by Pastor Boyd from Ballymena my home town. Timothy Eaton from Ballymena built an Empire and in fact my first job upon arriving in Toronto October 1966 was at an Eaton Store, as the rule was anyone from Ballymena got hired on the spot. Canadian Federal and Toronto Ontario Politics was controlled by the Orangemen until around 1953 and the 12th July Parade is still held in Toronto, although small in scale. Early Federal Politics in Australia and both NSW and Victoria was greatly influenced by the same group, however, that’s all changed. The Judge who sentenced Ned Kelly was born in Ulster. Anyhow, I trust the above has given you a better understanding and appreciation of your ancestry. To clarify, the writer is not influenced by the fact that your ancestors were Orangemen as I am not an Orangeman. I simply admire what the early frontiersmen achieved as a group. I also acknowledge that the early German settlers had a lot to do with the opening of the Smokey Mountains. The story goes that the Ulster men kept fight the Indians while the Germans built the barns. There was no intermarriage between them during the first couple of years at least.
@ Joseph Bailiff landed in Philadelphia in 1796 (if memory serves). He is the first person in my father’s side to immigrate to the US. Davy Crockett’s family had tavern in my hometown of Morristown, Tennessee. Of course, he died at the Alamo. He was quite a traveler, as they lived in North Carolina before settling in Tennessee. Sam Houston was also from East Tennessee, and there is a schoolhouse named after him not far from here. His family came across the mountains from Virginia, as my paternal grandfather did. Andrew Jackson was from middle Tennessee and also tended to move around. These immigrants were fierce warriors and were prominent fighters in every conflict. Their almost universal distaste of the English crown persists with the older generations, even til today. While these families spent many years in Ireland, they never forgot their Scottish heritage. When looking at grave stones in my parent’s hometown, you can find a few Irish surnames, but overwhelmingly, they are Scottish. I am named after my grandfather, Clyde Bailiff, but grew up by my middle name Duran. The younger generation is less informed or interested in our European ancestry, but growing up (I’m a late Boomer) there was no question about the family origins. The thing that perplexes me is the origin of the name Bailiff. I wonder when they took on the occupation name and how they identified before. Thanks for your encyclopedic information on the history. Happy New Year! 🥳
real intresting stuff but you could also have giuven muh more insight as to the RH~ negative blood group prevalence also in Ireland. I really loved the visuals throughout . I would love to know more about the source of same . Im not crazy either aout the computer generated voice. best regards but do more on this please. Slaan
I'm mostly Swedish with Irish, German, Scots and English mixed in. I look typically Swedish with blue eyes, fair skin and very naturally blonde hair. Everyone on my mom's side of the family look so similar to each other there's no doubt we are all closely related. 😊
My father’s side is all Irish and can trace back to 1600’s but stops there. Was a fire in building that had the records. Also Scottish ancestry on my mother’s side. Also so English and Native American from my grandmothers. Have fair skin, green eyes and reddish hair. Also had problems with high iron amounts when was a kid never knew was Irish trait
Rory O Moore was alive around 1600. There is no way you could trace ancestry that far back. Also any records prior to 1901 were destroyed in the fire at the Custom's House in 1921 during the Civil War.
I have red hair. My maternal grandmother is from Belfast Northern Ireland. But she had dark as coal brown eyes and black hair that never really turned grey. I got my red hair from my paternal great grandmother.
My Mums family also came from Belfast area and they were mostly all dark, they used to joke there was a native North American dude in the woodpile. Poor Gran, she put put up with a lot of kidding when the boys were young.
Mom’s family (Burnside, which is a Scotch surname) came to America around 1830 from Enniskillen Fermanagh County. Northern Ireland. This information was passed down through the generations. Have yet to do a DNA test because it looks like my dad’s side is mostly British, with a little Irish, German, and French according to Family Search.
In my late forties I did my DNA test. Both my parents are Irish. I am 94% Irish and 6% Italian! A do have a bit of a perma-tan but blue eyes. There isn’t any history of an Italian connection so not sure when that came in to the Family?
The Roman Empire absorbed the Celts into their empire as Britons, Gauls, Boii, Galatians, and Celtiberians. However, Celtic culture survived in more remote parts of Europe, like Ireland and northern Britain.
Irish have unique personality traits.. predispodition for scrapping, hoarding, disorganisation and general chaos.. they have a knack for business and know how to make money but not save it.. can be related to drinking problems. They love to sing dance and the most unique trait is their PASSION.. depth of feeling, which is almost totally lacking in the english. The irish love slapstick comedy, practical jokes and they really are naturally lucky people. My mother used to say about my Dad.. 'fell in sh*t , comes up smelling like a rose'.. this was almost certainly related to another irish trait of his: 'the gift of the gab' which lent him the ability to get out of almost any sticky situation effortlessly.. I often marvelled what a natural born actor he was and how he could turn a difficult situation around in no time.. somewhere I have written down a list of his classic sayings which are all hilarious..
Expat born in England-39% Irish, 28% British Isles, 19% Scandanavian & 18% Estonian. Those were shockers although the Irish doesn't surprise me as maternal Great Grandfather Irish. I have the red hair & green eyes & apparently, I look Irish:) That came out of the mouth of a real Irish man here in the States. I kept quiet, just smiled as I'm from the Birmingham area & didn't want to disappoint him:)
Interesting, all of my ancestors are Irish. Some came over to Scotland during the Great Hunger, most stayed there. My red headed , blue eyed mother looks Viking - tall, red -auburn hair, blue eyes, very blue-white skin - they came from around Dublin. My father's people are from Donegal, darker hair, blue-grey eyes, light cream skin. I have my tall father's dark hair with a touch of my mother's red, green eyes and pale cream skin. I'm only five foot although both parents are tall. My sisters both look totally different from me and each other. One has honey brown hair, brown eyes and sallow skin - my mother's grandfather was black Irish as was his wife. She gave me her Spanish (Basque) first name. My other sister has my mother's red hair and blue eyes but not her height - she's only 5 foot. A very odd genetic mix in one family. In Donegal there was very little genetic change. It's in the North but not part of the UK's 'Northern' Ireland so we didn't get the Scots during the clearances. I thought about getting my DNA done but I thought I'd best keep it private. I probably have Iberian, Viking and Celtic roots.
How do you know what the Vikings looked like - they very mixed? - You can;t accept that the Irish could have red hair and blue eyes? Stop with the "Black Irish" that you invented.
“If you’re Irish, come into the parlour, there’s a welcome there for you”. Thank you for this. It’s always interesting to find out why we are, who we are. My Irish goes way back, well I thought all the way back to Adam and Eve, imagine my shock when my daughter studying science informed me that, in actual fact, it goes all the way back to Bacteria. Apparently according to Science, we all started off from Bacteria, and I thought the Vikings were bad! Hahahaha! 😂
My father's side was all irish. They came to America in 1700 from county Clare. My ancestors name was Bridget clarey. I think, if I remember right, she was only 17 years old.
49% Irish, thanks to my Dad's parents. Ive traced my Irish ancestry back to 1770s, Tyrone, Donegal, Monaghan, Longford and lastly Armagh. Wee bit Irish on my Mum's side my 2X greats. My paternal grandmother had red hair & a temper to go with it lol. I'm auburn & have the temper too. Back in Ireland in next couple of months but only a short hop from Scotland.
I wonder if the reason why so many deformities, mental, and physical issues arise in people from the US, is because of their dilation of pureblooded DNA. It gets mixed. I'm irish, german, macedonian, and yugoslavian. Some people have less mix, some have a lot more. I wonder if this could be a bad thing?
Irish both sides for centuries. I have dark brown hair, green eyes, 5ft 7, w pale skin. Our history was passed down via Oral Tradition rather than the English version. Obviously very different than what they reported. There was plenty of food other than just potatoes, such as, chickens, hens, cows, sheep etc., we got to feed them while renting the land which had once belonged to us but stolen by the English. The food was used for their soldiers (also many Irish men forced to don their uniform or forfeit their family) on English ships headed out to colonise other countries. Ireland was the first colony of the English (over 800yrs) and used as a port for their adventurers.
I have some Irish.This is interesting. I didn't associate red hair with Ireland. My grandmother, dad, his sisters, my daughter and her kids all have red hair. The red heads in my family are so stubborn. I don't know if that's a trait or not.
There is not really any region of Ireland that is very different genetically. The genetic distance is miniscule between each different areas. The Donegal region was more isolated so a bit more "unique". The eastern Irish naturally enough are closer to Britain but no part of Ireland has a distinct genetic cluster. In a British Isles context the Orcadians and Welsh are more distinct. Also the Irish today owe the majority of their genetics to the Bronze Age Bell Beakers and the Irish are most similar to their NW European neighbours.
Ireland is a small country...genes "perculate" through a small country so they kind of look the same to outsiders. Believe it or not Danes and Norwegians and Swedes can tell each other apart. In the old days you found a mate not far from your home village. (No swiping left or right on your iPad back then.)
Traces no huge percent of Irish blood..80 percent 10 British 9 Scandinavian trace Iberian peninsula.Second generation Irish American.. l regret giving out my DNA 🧬.. black hair grey eyes
Brazil please translate into Portuguese Brazil🇧🇷...I discovered that I have Germanic ancestry after my ancestry DNA test...my results...I am of the paternal haplogroup .i...i1. Europe 34% Western Europe 17% Germany, France and the Netherlands British Isles Iberia 12% Italy 4% Eastern Europe < 2%...Africa 59% Mina Coast 40% West Africa 8% East Africa 6% Great Lakes Region (Eastern Bantu Peoples) West Kenya Senegambia < 3% Mande < 3% Mbuti < 2%..Paternal Lineage Your haplogroup is: I Born between 35 and 28 thousand years ago, haplogroup I represents one of the first peoples of Europe, having several descendant lineages that spread throughout the European territory during the last Ice Age, having its maximum frequency in the Balkans. It is one of the most numerous haplogroups among European men, being the second largest paternal lineage found on the continent (second only to the R lineage). Its I1 branch is related to Nordic Europe, ancestor of the Germanic tribes and Vikings, while I2 is strongly related to Neolithic cultures. Maternal Lineage Its haplogroup is: A Haplogroup A emerged in Asia about 40 to 60 thousand years ago. Descended from the N lineage, representatives of this haplogroup can be found from Central Asia to Siberia and regions of the Americas. It is believed that this lineage originated in Asia and continued towards America, passing through the Bering Strait during the last Ice Age.
My mother‘s name was Murphy her father from Liverpool.We did have a genetic test and her application came out as I which I believe is from the Vikings.
My daughter did a DNA test and it came back that she had Irish in her which was shocking to both myself and my ex-husband who is African American. I can trace my genetics lineage all the way back to 900 I'm Scottish, French, Scandinavian, Spanish, Portuguese, Jewish, and English. No one that we can find has any connection to Ireland. My mother had red hair and she's Spanish and Portuguese on her father's side and Scandinavian on her mother's. I have green eyes and I'm the only one with green eyes in my entire family.
Already knew I was mostly of Irish descent. On both sides. But different dna tests showed different dna markers which still said I was mostly Irish, at least 1/4 Norwegian (not a surprise, my grandfather was from Norway), and then one test also said I was about 5% Italian and 5% admix asian. Tracing trees, one of my mother's grandmother is a dead end with a unique name, so it may be her family moved to Ireland from Italy, and she grew up and married my great grandfather there before moving to the US. And the Asian admix came down the side of the family that were world colonizers, so it makes sense that I'd have their gathered bits. What was most interesting was following my family names back. My mother's side is from Clare and my father side is from Cork. And following names back, my family had been intermarrying for centuries. I'm my own cousin several times over and several times removed by immigration during The Great Hunger. No need to tell my elderly mother that.
Iberes means Irish... they are decedent's of Isrealites. Maccabees left Cypress, Greece, Palestine, and fled to the Iberian peninsula. They spoke Gaelic, Gaelic comes from "Galilee" they would become the Gauls, Gaels. The "Maccabees" are today "MacAbees" The Scottish Declaration of Independence actually has this information, and states that they are decedent's of the Isrealites. They were the Spartans, and they were architects. For instance Edinburgh means New Eden. It has Greek architecture all over it! It's beautiful!
67.7% Welsh, Irish snd Scottish 16.7% Scandinavian and the rest iderian. Redhead , green eyes and fair skin. Think I might be a bit Irish though a Scot.
On my GrandFather's side my ancestors founded a town in Czechoslovakia in 1050 A.D. & are descendants of Genghis Khan & my Grandfather's wife was an immigrant from Cork, Ireland. Idk if either of these explain my rare B- blood type or my incredible Immune system that have cured me of things usually fatal? Also weird that myself, daughter & grandchildren are allergic to Blackberry but after eating it once we develop immunity (I also had hepatitis B once & developed immunity & have had Hepatitis C for decades without adverse effects) ? 🇺🇲
I’m a redhead. 78% Scottish/Irish, and the rest Iberian Peninsula and Eastern Asia (Turkey, Greece etc) which this video helps explain. I’m female though so that’s just my maternal side. Women apparently can’t do paternal DNA, but I suspect it would be close to the same.
I suspect we all have a little Viking DNA in us. As far as I know, I have Irish, Scottish, English, Dutch, and French in my DNA, but suspect my family also has Viking DNA. I was a true strawberry blonde when younger. Now it is just gray mostly and little of my strawberry blonde. 😁
I took a DNA test to find out that I’m 69% English Irish. My mother had Auburn red hair and my first grandson had blonde hair with a red beard and my son has blonde hair red beard and his youngest son is completely redheaded. I was also 16% Iberian. 6% finish. And there was something else I can’t remember but then there was other. Didn’t tell me what the other is.
I was fascinated to learn my DNA results said that I was 35% English and Eastern Europe, 22% Scottish and 20% Irish so now I’ve been trying to figure out who in my family tree came from where but I don’t think I can trace it that far back because all my people think they came from England and Germany…but we must be from the dark haired Irish side of the genetics. I’m not aware of any family members that have naturally red hair darn it. 😂
My Irish ancestry came in the 1800s they came to Connecticut not Ellis Island. I am Roman Catholic though not Irish Catholic!!! I am proud of my gentetic diversity my Celtic genetics show through more then the Italian but my great grandfather from the Azores was a natural redhead handsome man.
I have always wanted to visit Ireland and Australia the only 2 countries I haven’t visited but I am old now and not interested in leaving my country home anymore.
Some do have Dupuytren's contracture. The Viking disease. I certainly do...my fingers curled up as I aged. I must have a Viking Raider somewhere in my Irish ancestry.
The Celts did not have a big impact on the Irish genetically. What is often said to be Celtic culture is just indigenous Irish or more Gaelic and linked with Western Scotland. Also the Irish are closest to Scots and other British Isles populations. There is not a link to Galica. There is more a link with the Bretons.
I live on the County Antrim coast Northern Ireland...my dad's family are Irish and my mother's grandmother was Ashkenazi Jewish. My wee country is so beautiful with over 40 shades of green grass and beautiful coastal scenery...but it rains a lot!
my people emigrated from Antrim! perhaps we are cousins :-)
My maternal family is mostly Irish (my grandmother always corrected, “Scots-Irish”) I learned that my family were found in the Antrim region. I have several relatives with red hair & blue eyes. My family’s name is McManus. I’m pretty sure that there’s distant relatives that still exist there.
Antrim is absolutely beautiful.
what a great combo! me too!
Hello. That means your mother was Jewish and so are you. Unfortunately, unless you married a Jewish female, it ended with you, as it passes only from the female. If you have a sister, then she and her children are Jewish. Many Irish Jews came from Europe while others arrived via Scotland, who became the Kosher butchers who set up in West Belfast. Sounds like you live in the Glens. Doubt there is a Synagogue within 50 mile of you. The first Chief Rabbi of Israel was the Rabbi in Belfast. His son (born in Belfast) became the President of Israel. His grandson is the current President of Israel. I’m from Ballymena and as my wife is Jewish all the children are Jewish. They all have girls, so the link continues for at least one more generation. I understand largest Jewish community in Ireland is in Cork, as many have moved from Dublin. The Synagogue in King William Rd Belfast is quite nice. Glasgow still has a sizeable community. Shalom.
I’m Irish, French and Cherokee. My eyes are green and my hair is red. I’ve had a lot of injuries and I keep surviving them all. I’m proud to be Irish ☘️ American. I was told that I’m Celtic. I can endure a lot of pain, but I need a lot more pain relief than others. ❤
@@RUclipsr5775- maybe experts will be able to recreate images of our real ancestors for us to see. I would love that!
I am the same Scotts Irish. I didn't get the full green eyes but hazel. My sister & son have green eyes. I am the same with pain & require more for pain relief.
Me too - I was told when having my babies that I can’t be ready yet to deliver - when they measured - She was already crowning - I fractured my back , a rib in 2 places - a shoulder blade and 1 more rib - never cried or cried out - no one believed me until they looked at the x-rays each time . Names Murphy Shades of Queen Boudicca?
@ my sister has beautiful red hair, but her eyes are brown and she hates me for having green eyes. I also have larger breasts that I inherited from my mother and grandmother. Both of my sisters were small and they didn’t like me having them. I felt bad about it because they stuck out and I couldn’t help it. If I had known to use an ace bandage on them I would have done that to myself. Being a teenager was not easy for me.
I have green eyes and 50% Irish ancestry. Pain meds do not work for me, it's crazy. Even lidocaine, I need huge amounts to numb up well. I have a high pain tolerance supposedly
I was adopted in 1955. I was told I was 50-50 Scot-English. When I turned 68 I learned thru testing I was really 87% Irish, some significant Welsh and a scant sprinkling of all those travelers. Suddenly it all made sense.
I’m Irish and I’ve done the dna test and it came back that I’m 95% Irish the rest is Scottish and French
just out of curiosity, do you live in Ireland? I was adopted and did my dna and got 60% Southern Ireland, 37% Hebrides Scotland, 2% Uk and 2% Germanic (which could include danish etc). But I've never been there. Lots of Irish ppl have small amounts of Scottish dna as they are basically genetic cousins and travelled back and forth.
@ yes I live in Ireland
@@thedarkhugheshughes2640 - oh lucky you!! I'm Canadian, but it's on my bucket list. Thanks for replying!! xoxo
@ no problem at all, good luck with your bucket list.
@@thedarkhugheshughes2640 awww thanks!!
My Irish and German DNA are mixed with Scandinavian DNA from Norway, Sweden and Finland! Fascinating!
Sounds like some Vikings crept in.
@mistymorn26 look at my comments, Irish, Finnish Scandinavian too! I learned German fairly easily.
I know my great grandparents & great great grandparents came from glendalough on both sides, going back to the late 1700's to the early 1800's , I found out , from listing to my grandad who was an amazing man , he used to tell amazing stories 😍❤️🔥🇮🇪
@MollyMalone-kq9iw I’m from the Kennas or McKennas who fought with the O’Neils to uphold the clan Tyrone (kingdom). They earned land and money but the Tyrone’s were usurped and Kennas had to round begging prior enemies for help. Eventually jumping over to west of Scotland in droves to try for a living.
@MollyMalone-kq9iw my grandfather met up with his colleagues after jumping on a boat from Ireland as a child to his ‘freedom.’ They called him Kenna the old Irish name before the Mc part was introduced which was similar to the O’ in O’Neil for example. The uk treated Irish like immigrant slaves and he couldn’t get anything but physical work, navvying. He was self educated and could draw, (I got that gene) and hated religious bias. He married my grandma when they were 18 and 16. Him a born Catholic and her a Protestant. Totally outrageous and a slur to society! But I’ve inherited his swagger to a point and disregard for the extreme gnashing of cn others and remain bonded to my intuition or genetic strengths, or call it what you will. None of us fall far from the tree.
@Saffy-yr8vo brilliant , I loved listening to my grandad telling me stories about his grandparents etc & his experience of the black and tans , he said he was only a small child & you would hear them coming & the neighbours would grab the children and bring them into their houses.
There are not enough people who sit down and listen to old people , but when you do , as you know , they have went through so much , they have so much experience to pass onto those who listen and it's how we learn about our family members who we never met that passed long ago and to look back at photos from the 1800's 😍
You really have studied you're family tree , well done to you 💯
Thanks for sharing you story 💚🕊️🧡
My husband is 98% Irish. I’m 66%. I (and my sister, who inherited a bit differently than me) have Swedish and even Icelandic DNA among Scottish, English, and a few others from the mainland.
I’m a Lyons on mom’s side and just found out this month that my unknown paternal grandfather was also a Lyons! No, my parents were not related to each other. GEDmatch confirmed that.
Great video!
I'm 98% as well... Brady/O'Rourke mother side Hand/Morgan father side
My great grandmother was a Lyons, our Irish ancestors having relocated to Dubuque Iowa USA in the 1800's. Several tombstones say they were born in late 1700's in County Caven, Ireland.
@ My maternal great-grandmother was a McGovern from County Cavan. My maternal Lyons family is from Clydagh, Roscommon. If you google “Annie Lyons Lusitania” you’ll find info on my grandfather’s cousin who went down on the Lusitania. My paternal Lyons grandfather’s family is from County Cork.
One of the traits you have left out are the Black Irish(not African) Those with dark skin, black hair and dark eyes. Many even called 'Blackie Quinn, Blacky Thompson to name a few! I have Irish in my ancestry and I am often taken for Italian, Greek, Jewish, etc. My maternal grandfather was also very dark complected.
Were Irish, my husband looks like this as does his mother. It goes back as far as a photo of his great grandfather. He has dark skin and jet black hair. It's thought to come from the Spanish armada that got wrecked off the coast of Ireland in 1588. Many of the male survivors stayed and married Irish women. I'd love to see our DNA profiles but I don't trust the companies with that information.
The black hair and blue eyes were from Spanish Point. The Spanish Armada would regularly crash on to the rocks there and have to do extensive repairs.
They left behind their genes 😊
Thanks to the Spanish.
The middle eastern influence perhaps? Maybe moorish, through Portugal / Iberia?)
The Irish also came from the Basque region of Spain.@@TheCaramatches
Anybody else have a high tolerance for anesthesia, especially novacaine.
The Neanderthals had a bone spur on the jaw, protecting the nerve.
Yes I had a very hard time waking up after surgery because of that!
Neanderthal really😂 gtfoh..so Irish are last of neanderthal?
@TwinklingofaneyeLoveStoryofGod Myself and daughter too.
@opforwarrior funnily they told me I had the Neanderthal haplo group but I’m allergic to novacaine! Enjoyed morphine in hospital though!!!
@opforwarrior experts recently decided us Neanderthals NEVER disappeared! Geniuses!
I love this video. I am so interested in DNA and geneology. My own Dad apparently had some Irish ancestry 💚
Done a DNA test and it states that I am 100% Irish, blew my mind, although not surprising as I am Irish 😅.. but honestly thought I would have some other mix in there. But I’m happy 👌🏻
Haha, it reminds me of WWDITS' character Colin Robinson's DNA test results showing he was 100 % white. Guillermo's initial response was basically, that can't be... everyone is a mixture. But nope, lol, Colin showed him the hard copy.
@@wildanimus2559 😅😅😅😅 I had a few doubters also
I always say that my DNA (94% Irish with a little Scottish and English thrown in) makes me white, white and more white. My daughter was so pale that she looked like a ghost. My mother has 100% Irish genes so I blame my father's side for mucking it up. Both sides of my family are from Donegal County, one in the far North and one in the South.
@@mzab0003 yep I certainly get the pale complexion theory alright a lot of us Irish are almost translucent 😅😅😅.. County Donegal is great part of the country. I’m from Dublin the city, so it’s great to escape from time to time to the country side.. good for the soul.
@aido3335 DNA only tells you a very small part of your ancestry, your most recent ancestry. You inherit 50% each DNA from both parents. Meaning there are 50% each you haven't inherited. You may have ancestors from other places, but you didn't inherit any or too small to count.
Enjoyed the video. Learned a lot. Thank you
Thank You!! Loved your video👍 Did an awesome job!! Thanks for all the hard work at putting it together. 🌺👍
If the robot had been programmed to speak an Irish accent, it would have improved this video vastly. Why not? It can be done. BTW, replacing the AI images with real ones or art would improve it a lot, too.
I just had to turn it off. That broke the narrative
Didn't bother me one bit. American accent was fine. Fake Oirish accent would've been annoying. Thought it interesting overall.
No thanks
Glad that it didn't sound authentic as it showed it was Al without question.
I’d love to hear and see videos of human Irish voices speaking local dialects
It's exciting to learn about this ancient history of Irish DNA. My family is part of the Irish diaspora.
This video is AI bollocks
@@nancyferguson3749 the older ones have the best story's. I love listening to them. If you've worked with older people you found wisdom.
This was very interesting, thanks guys ❤
This is such cool information! Thank you!
The number of Irish with red and blonde hair, mostly increased via the Viking Invasions which were many throughout Ireland. Dublin, (Viking name) Waterford (Water-fjord) Wexford (Wex-fjord) were all Viking settlements.
The Romans (1000 years before the Vikings) described the Irish as having reddish hair and blue eyes. The Irish have a higher proportion (90%+) of blue-eyed people than Scandinavia. The Vikings did NOT give the Irish their blue eyes.
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The Vikings are currently being ridiculously romanticised/ glamourised , as if Brian Boru had never existed! 🤔
Some Irish/Scottish genes go back to ancient Egypt. When an Egyptian princess.,went over with Jacobs pillar, she is buried in Ireland.
Dublin is the English adaptation of the Gaelic Dubh Linn which translates as Black Pool.
That's oft repeated and just not true. The Vikings didn't leave as much DNA as people thought and also..red hair was here in large numbers a long long time before the Norse or Danes came robbing our stuff.
Great video, I have ancestors from Ireland way back up to the 1700s in Galway, surname Font.
ONe of the Merchant 'Tribes' of Galway. Font is no more it seems in Galway.. I could be wrong on that but there may be outliers
Phytophthora infestans commonly known as Potato Late Blight, resulted in at least 1,000,000 Irish dying of starvation and another 1,000,000 immigrating. This occured between 1845-1852. Many of the Irish came to America. Phytophthora infestans is a fungus like microorganism. We now understand it and can control it.
I’m Scots of 97% Southern Irish descent. My dna said I’m also Scandinavian and Finnish. They suggested one group settled in Orkney or extreme North Scotland too.Then moved down. My dad’s cousins were all 6ft 5in tall with bright red hair. He was 6ft 2 black hair. But my mum had physical Viking features and they told me they could tell from her genes, mine. The Vikings were described by others as ‘big boned’. Recently proved that Vikings were mercenaries with other tribes including the Greeks. I’m obsessed with anything Greek and the country. Visited many times. Starts to make sense. Also the Finnish had the green eyes like mine. And were crafts and jewellers and artists. Snap!
Are you American by nationality? What you have said here sounds to me very much like how an American might think of their ancestry. It sounds very different to how Scottish or Irish people would think of their ancestry.
@@SharonBoland-ui3ns It's the way you think about it. When I first read where you said "I’m Scots of 97% Southern Irish descent" I assumed you are Scottish, and wondered what your background was. I thought you probably didn't descend from the largest group of emigrants who left for Scotland in the century after the famine, as they were mainly from the northern part of Ireland, not the southern part. But then "Southern Irish descent" didn't make any sense to me anyway as Ireland is a small island and there is very little distance between north, east, south and west. And there only seems to be a minor DNA variation in Ireland and it is between east and west, as most later immigrants from Great Britain to Ireland settled in the east (from the middle ages on). That is my understanding from the last dna stuff I read, but it might be out of date. It struck me that the way you might think about these things, if you come from a vast country like America, is different to how you would think about it if you were from a smallish countries like Ireland or Scotland. Also, you used the term "north Scotland" instead of "north of Scotland" and that also made me think you weren't Scottish, and possibly American. But you have an Irish surname, and one that is not as common in the north of Ireland as it is in the south. So who knows, I was just curious, lol.
@@user-fh1rz1uq6c the Southern Irish is a give away.... you have either IRISH dna or you dont. There is NO difference, It's strictly a political divide.
How does one have "physical Viking features"? Vikings were not a race or a specific ethnicity if people, being a Viking meant that one lived their life a certain way.
Being a Viking was more of a way of life or occupation than an ethnicity or race. While Vikings primarily came from Scandinavia (present-day Denmark, Norway, and Sweden), the term "Viking" referred to their activities (raiding, trading, exploration) rather than their origin or genetic makeup.
In essence:
"Viking" was a job title or a description of a lifestyle, not a racial or ethnic identity.
Vikings came from various backgrounds and engaged in a wide range of activities, including raiding, trading, exploration, and settlement.
The term "Viking" referred to a shared culture and way of life rather than a specific ethnicity or race.
Evidence supporting this:
DNA studies show Vikings had diverse genetic backgrounds, including those from southern Europe, the British Isles, and the Baltic region.
Archaeological evidence suggests that people from different regions and backgrounds adopted Viking culture and practices.
The term "Viking" itself is derived from the Old Norse word "víkingr," which means "pirate" or "raider," highlighting the activity rather than the origin of those who engaged in it.
@@susanlbk Agree. I just meant in the common (not ‘correct’) way general public would describe as Viking, blonde or red haired but as you say the ‘Vikings’ descended to the northern hemispheres from the east and southern parts of the world. There’s a good vid on here shows they were from Baltic and southern Europe etc.But we’re all such a mix now anyway. Which is even more interesting! However I discovered around the end of the Greek AND Roman empires I think? They sent for ‘Viking’ mercenaries to be used as bodyguards for the rich to protect them ostensibly from the plebs! Who were revolting. As they were taller and ‘bigger boned’ and not scared of a fight. Paying them in gold and inviting them to stay and integrate with locals. Or they could choose to return home freely. I just like the idea up until I read this that my obsession with Greece (not other EU countries I’ve visited) was a puzzle! And that maybe there IS such a thing as inherited memory. A subject my friends and me find interesting too. OR when Rome invaded England they obvs took slaves back to Italy for wars they were fighting further east to use them as soldiers.
Interesting about the celiac disease. Gut problems run rampant in my mothers side of the family. (Belfast and Scotland)
Dublin people are extremely attractive I'm from the country living in Dublin guys are so handsome women are beautiful
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My grandad from Co. Monaghan, mum good looking, sadly it missed a generation .Boo.
Fionn ya aul rogue😂
@thatsthejobbb8587 😂😂
I'm Irish-American and my DNA shows 99% Northern European and 1% Southern European. The DNA also has about 4% of Neanderthal genetic influences. I think that it's a common trait in many Northern European cultures.
I think, from reading, the most people have a 2% genetic marker to Neanderthal dna. So 4%s quite high. It's so amazing that we can now track our genetic history. I definitely want the genetic test done. I know my recent history as far as grandparents in Ireland and my Dad but it will be fascinating to delve deeper
@@danellacoffey5836 It would appear that I'm in the upper bracket.
Have higher than normal Neanderthal and was told 2% of it is active in me. Intermingled in my strands. Have issue with gluten. many issues on the scientific chopping block as to health problems associated with it, But also decrease impuse control, adrenaline pathways. Color light sound. Dog whistles scent taste, could spot a mushroom in a crowded forest just by it's hue. Also sensed a few seizure. Hard to say if it is a color a sound, We'l dogs do this and we share much common DNA.
Thank you for pointing out that the Irish were slaves in America too. “Irish and Africans worked side by side”.
Irish people were paid. Africans were not. Whiteness mattered. There are absolutely no records of Irish slaves in America or here. Irish people could also leave their tenancy but African people could not leave their slavery.
not slaves, indentured servants, somewhat different
Yes I knew (have read) about the Irish slaves- after the Emancipation Proclamation - slavery didn’t entirely end- Italian immigrants were recruited and became the slaves. Most people aren’t aware if this historical fact,
Chinese were enslaved to work on the railroads.
@@scarletohara6743actual slaves. They were bought and sold as were any other slave in N. America
Very enlightening
I took a DNA test and found I had more Scandinavian than I expected. This podcast helps to explain that. My family came to the USA in 1848, during the worst of the Potato Famine. Desperate parents put a 7 year old boy and his 8 year old sister on a boat to America, and the parents died in Ireland. That 7 year old boy, David Thomas McGuire, was my great great grandfather. I don't know where in Ireland he was from.
The Norman’s were the original Vikings and were from Denmark. The Danes also were in control of Norway for several hundred years. The Norse- Norwegians were mainly farmers and fishermen and sea-explorers. They settled the areas of Western and North Western Ireland, The Highlands of Scotland and the islands between both Ireland and Norway and Scotland. Also, the South of Norway has a large DNA heritage from Greece. Red hair and Black or Brown hair with pale blue-violet and hazel- green brown-gold eyes come from Greece with the lightly browned tan skin tones. I discovered this from a deep-dive DNA test that I and my brother did. I’d always wondered how my Southern Norwegian grandmother got her tanned skin tones and black hair with Violet-blue eyes and my mom got dark brown hair with her hazel eyes. My granddad had the pale skin tones with white blonde hair and very bright blue eyes. Mom’s sister got her dad’s coloring and eyes. I got his coloring and eyes but light brown with blonde and reddish mixed highlights and blond when young. Granddad was full Norse too. My Dad’s heritage was Scot-Norse & a bit of Irish-Scots, from long ago, called Dal Riata and English-Welsh-Dane with a bit of French-Swiss and royalty connections on that side going very far back and to the Spencer’s Charles and Diana. That blew us away with great surprise! Also royal connections to ancient Ireland, Scotland, PICTs and Norse! Doing that deep dive shows much more than your surface DNA markers! Try it!
I've heard that 24% of Norwegian DNA is Irish - is that true?
How can your granddad be full norse? That's not a race or ethnicity.
Norse" refers to a cultural and linguistic group, not a race, though the concept of a "Nordic race" was historically used, particularly in the 19th and 20th centuries, but is now widely discredited.
What Norse means:
Historically, "Norse" referred to the North Germanic people who spoke Old Norse, a language spoken by Vikings and other inhabitants of Scandinavia (Denmark, Norway, and Sweden) during the Viking Age.
It encompassed their culture, language, and shared traditions.
Modern descendants of Norsemen include Danes, Icelanders, Faroese, Norwegians, and Swedes.
The term "Norse" is more accurately described as a cultural or linguistic affiliation rather than a racial one.
The Concept of a "Nordic Race":
In the past, some anthropologists and others categorized "Nordic" as a race, associating it with certain physical characteristics and traits.
This concept was used to justify racist ideologies and discrimination.
The idea of a "Nordic race" is now considered outdated and inaccurate.
Modern genetics and anthropological research have debunked the notion of distinct human races.
In essence, "Norse" is a cultural and linguistic identity, not a racial one. The concept of a "Nordic race" has been refuted by modern science and is associated with discriminatory ideologies.
At last one accurate recount upon the Gaels! Thank you very much
My Mom had a build up of Iron in her Liver, Causing cancer. She was Irish on her mother side completely. Co. mayo, around the center east of Galway and part of the southwest. Dad was Scotch Irish, some family still there. DNA confirms this.
Iron build up in blood comes from the Vikings. Google it!
Haemochromatosis
Wow- - what ALOT of fascinating family stories! I am from a Scots family with all 4 children having fair skin, hazel eyes and red hair. And no, we don't have worse than average tempers! Could not help from chiming in here. My Dad's best friend was Irish. They loved to tell each other tall tales and the laughter was just so infectious. I always thought the reference to the "Black" McDonalds referred to their temperaments! ie - black tempered, easy to anger - but then I had the misfortune of marrying one of these Scots! Anyway, hearing that the reference was to genetics was good info. Great video and fun comments.
I’m 49% Scottish and 17%. Scandinavian, the rest English and north Western Europe. People are people from wherever in the world they come from. Steve Gash. From North Eastern England. My skin is white, I have to sunbathe for two weeks to go slightly off white. Blue eyes too
I'm Irish and English and I'm vampire white !
Excellent information to help us who have some of these DNA markers.
red heads ae very special - stronger, warriors, smarter, gifted in the arts and beautiful
I resemble that remark.. Isle of Skye
Did you know and you probably do know! That red heads create their own vitamin D. And red hair only happens when there is red hair on both sides of the family.
Turks Russians Spanish Viking Norman English Welsh Scottish French No wonder we're mixed up
Except we arent
And the "Turkish" Anatolian genes aren't Turkic.
You're right, the Turko-mongolian people migrated to Anatolia around the eighth century. Prior to this Anatolia had been Mostly Greek, Armenian, and Kurdish. @@johnhayes8557
And Guinness.
Says the Anglo-Norman Purcell. You're probably a relativist anyway - who cares if the Irish become a minority in Ireland by 2050, of course
To all my Irish and Irish American brothers and sisters, never forget that the English attempted to ban Irish music, dancing and folklore for centuries. It wasn't until the 1920s through the 1960s when the English attempted to save face and make things right by reviving the Celtic arts. Unfortunately, due to the centuries of oppression, Irish natives had lost so much of their culture that Europe had to reach out to American Irish in order to re-learn their own music and folklore.
If anyone ever tells you you are not Irish just because you no longer live there, remind them of this. Our history is too precious to be forgotten.
Not too sure where you get your information from, What part of Europe exactly had to reach out to America to bring our culture back? When did England ever try to "save face" for what they done to the Irish? the English didn't attempt to Ban...they did ban punishable by death if they caught us speaking Irish, playing Irish games or gathering in groups of 4 or more. Irish Culture was kept alive by subversive groups of Irish people still living in Ireland.
@@RaveBabyFuu tell me about it. Aargh
Well said! 🤗
@@TC-kq8ef They ( England) were bloody awful to the Scots, too.
Fascinating , thank you
I’m irish and German. I’m very proud of my families heritage. I hope to visit Ireland one day
I am an American and half Irish. I got to Ireland in 2023, it was the best trip ever. Do all you can to get there, you won't be sorry☘️☘️
On my father's side, pure Irish, we can trace back to the 1850s, all with jet black wavy hair, fair skin and blue eyes .. and very tall. Would this be Russian/Ukraine or Iberique DNA? I inherit the fair skin and blue eyes ... and mid red hair from my mothers side ... still traces of Irish decent.
My son is almost 6’5, very fair skin, blue eyes, and dark curly hair. I have some Irish but his dad is very Irish and also fair-skinned, blue eyed, with dark curly hair, as are several of his cousins, his mother and some aunts. I’ve heard it called “Black Irish.” I assumed maybe Portuguese pirates/privateers left their mark.
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The Irish are the whitest people in Europe
Irish people have very inconsistent heights, they can range from very short to very tall. Dunno why people are equating tallness with being irish. The average irish person isn't that tall.
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"Black Irish" came from America via Britain - it does not refer to skin colour.
Indo-European.
If it's so unique, it is worth to preserve. But judging by the demographic changes, Irish politicians doesn't think so.
Would ya schtop
” Schtop “ what ? .. stating the fact that we here are currently being systematically eclipsed by a huge rate of mass migration?!🤔
Get a grip 🤣
The irsh are systematically being replaced. I'm American and can see it from here. Wake from the woke.
Genetic diversity is beneficial. And regardless, we are people, not some curiosity to preserve.
Interesting; I see you make no mention of Doggerland and that makes perfect sense. lol I'm female and my testing indicated that one of my parents was 100% Irish (of course that takes into account that the Irish are mix of many people's and simply indicates that my mother's ancestors had been in Ireland a very long time). I'm supposedly 100% British Isles (same thing re a marker of having been in the area thousands of years). My genetic markers indicate by that Mitochondrial DNA (female line) has been in Ireland 5 to 8000 years (possibly since the first settlements)--a particular mutation of that haplogroup, which distinguishes us Irish from the Scotch and English with the same female ancestor, occurred 2500 years ago. That said, my mtDNA is considered a rare haplogroup and we make up a small percentage of the Irish people. Our female line comes from the Doggerland area, and half of the people in the Basque area and half of the Sami people in Finland share that female ancestor. (Apparently, we took the road less travelled to make it to Ireland.) Doggerland likely disappeared in 6150 BCE. At any rate, we're part of the history of Ireland too.
Cool!
Snap, my haplo group through my mum and the connection to Finland. See my comment! DNA told me 10,000 yrs ago!
My family has the Basque marker as well. Our female’s blood tend to be negative as well.
I just recently watched a video about Doggerland, it was amazing. Your mention of it is only the 2nd time I’ve seen on this amazing history
May I ask what your Haplo-Group is?
I enjoyed the video.
The Celts were also originally from the pontic steppe region of southern Russia and Ukraine as the Celtic language is derived from the proto-Indo-European language root. Almost all of the languages of Europe are derived from this root.
I'm part Irish and part Scottish and glad that I'm not in that Russian/Ukrainian conflict.😊
My dad's parents came from Italy. We also have Roman ancestry.
I don't believe you zre right, a small group of people from the Steppes region spoke Proto European, and is believed that most European languages derive from this group, which doesn't mean they came from there.
@@Aisha-721 Rome is Italy.
@@liamoconlocha3264 You are right and I gapped. They could have been people who were invaded (or perhaps peacefully influenced) by a group that came from the steppe region. This is no doubt what happened to the original hunter gatherer populations which according to archaeologist Marija Gimbutus were still living peacefully in central Europe in 4000 BC. And interesting enough, the people of the British Isles still have a high percentage of this early DNA...akin to the DNA of the Basque. This also might help to explain the early Irish reverence for female goddess figures. The Basque revered Mari a Goddess of the mountains. Linguistic connection there with the Catholic Mary.
Please use the name Celts pronounced “Kelt” not Kilt, unless you are saying the word for the wrapped skirting used in Ireland, usually in dark green or the longer version in various Scottish plaids depending on the Clan’s colors and design mix. (Celt- pronounced “selt” is a basketball team name pronunciation, and nothing to do with Ireland or Scotland!)😊
The Roman Empire absorbed the Celts into their empire as Britons, Gauls, Boii, Galatians, and Celtiberians. However, Celtic culture survived in more remote parts of Europe, like Ireland and northern Britain. Red hair and green or blue eyes were traits of the Celtic tribes. @ 1200 BC
My mother was from the 'Irish pale' region. As the commentary states, she was taller than average and also beautiful, in a classical way. Through travel and teaching, I met both Turks and southern Russians. There was a definite 'family resemblance' amongst the latter group and some of the Turks I saw running around Istanbul were indistinguishable from many small, energetic, curly haired Irish men in Ireland and around London. To this day, I get on very well with people from both sides of the Black Sea and frankly ought to be called up to be, at very least, an observer in international negotiations.
@SharonBoland-ui3ns There may be some historical truth in this however I am convinced we, in part, come from the people of this region. The human migration story from the building blocks is generally agreed to be a south to north movement. Entire modern European ethnic groups overlapped on the map of Europe, east to west. This includes the Jewish nation. It's like our DNA in mathematically shared terms, interweaving as one group went north and others west. There is an ancient Irish text which makes reference to our non-Iberian ancestors. The evidence is there, in plain sight, to be seen.
The Irish have NOTHING to do with Turkey.
I am descended from Scots-Irish on both sides. We are not sure how long they were in Ireland before continuing on the South-Eastern Appalachia. I have often wondered if they intermixed with the Irish or just sojourned and then immigrated to the US. I suppose a DNA test would reveal the truth. 😂 Thanks for an informative video and Happy New Year! 🎉 🥳
Your ancestors immigrated from Ulster between 1700/1750. The plantation in the 1400s brought the Borderers mainly Scottish Presbyterian’s and English Protestants to Ulster. By the time they immigrated to America and Canada over five generations later they were Irish. The Ulster Irish accent was unique to Ulster, being a mixture of Irish and Scottish Gaelic and English and described locally as the homely tongue or Country method of speaking. The accent you call American and Canadian is the Ulster accent. Remember, there was no Northern Ireland until 1922. The persons in question lived predominately in the Counties of Antrim, Derry, Tyrone and Fermanagh with a much lesser number in County Galway. The English in the Southern Counties better known as the Anglo Irish had nothing in common with those who arrived in Ulster from the Border region. The accent of those in the Southern Counties are very different to those in the Northern Counties. Being Catholic or Protestant has nothing to do with it, as they all speak with the same accent. Belfast has a very unique high pitched accent and heavy influenced by a mixture of English and Irish, a City accent. All that music you call hillbilly is thanks to these wonderful frontiers people. The likes of Kit Carson and Jeremiah Johnston and yes Davey Crocket (family immigrated from France to Ireland) Houston, and many of the Kentucky Volunteers. They decimated the English in the battle of Kings Mountain. Washington declared that America would be like Canada but for these brave men and women. Remember it was the English and the Church of England that they hated NOT the Irish. The first President of Irish ancestry was Andrew Jackson who hated the English. The Second was Grant no less whose ancestry was from County Tyrone. All this information is right here on UTube. Unfortunately, they are incorrectly referred to as Scots-Irish which is incorrect. This is in part due to the fact that they didn’t want to be identified with the Irish immigrants who arrived much later from Southern Ireland. 24 Presidents of Irish Ancestry 21 from Ulster and 3 from Southern Ireland. The Mellon Family started life as farmers and ended up with the Mellon Bank. Canada was also heavy influenced by the Ulster Immigrants. The first Church was built near the River by Pastor Boyd from Ballymena my home town. Timothy Eaton from Ballymena built an Empire and in fact my first job upon arriving in Toronto October 1966 was at an Eaton Store, as the rule was anyone from Ballymena got hired on the spot. Canadian Federal and Toronto Ontario Politics was controlled by the Orangemen until around 1953 and the 12th July Parade is still held in Toronto, although small in scale. Early Federal Politics in Australia and both NSW and Victoria was greatly influenced by the same group, however, that’s all changed. The Judge who sentenced Ned Kelly was born in Ulster. Anyhow, I trust the above has given you a better understanding and appreciation of your ancestry. To clarify, the writer is not influenced by the fact that your ancestors were Orangemen as I am not an Orangeman. I simply admire what the early frontiersmen achieved as a group. I also acknowledge that the early German settlers had a lot to do with the opening of the Smokey Mountains. The story goes that the Ulster men kept fight the Indians while the Germans built the barns. There was no intermarriage between them during the first couple of years at least.
@ Joseph Bailiff landed in Philadelphia in 1796 (if memory serves). He is the first person in my father’s side to immigrate to the US. Davy Crockett’s family had tavern in my hometown of Morristown, Tennessee. Of course, he died at the Alamo. He was quite a traveler, as they lived in North Carolina before settling in Tennessee. Sam Houston was also from East Tennessee, and there is a schoolhouse named after him not far from here. His family came across the mountains from Virginia, as my paternal grandfather did. Andrew Jackson was from middle Tennessee and also tended to move around. These immigrants were fierce warriors and were prominent fighters in every conflict. Their almost universal distaste of the English crown persists with the older generations, even til today. While these families spent many years in Ireland, they never forgot their Scottish heritage. When looking at grave stones in my parent’s hometown, you can find a few Irish surnames, but overwhelmingly, they are Scottish. I am named after my grandfather, Clyde Bailiff, but grew up by my middle name Duran. The younger generation is less informed or interested in our European ancestry, but growing up (I’m a late Boomer) there was no question about the family origins. The thing that perplexes me is the origin of the name Bailiff. I wonder when they took on the occupation name and how they identified before. Thanks for your encyclopedic information on the history. Happy New Year! 🥳
Very well said fella, we have a heritage to be proud off, we went around the world a d worked hard but fair,
I think it explains why American women from the south are so beautiful! Inish!
Diversity of hair type, color, complexion long predates the Vikings.
real intresting stuff but you could also have giuven muh more insight as to the RH~ negative blood group prevalence also in Ireland.
I really loved the visuals throughout . I would love to know more about the source of same . Im not crazy either aout the computer generated voice. best regards but do more on this please. Slaan
I'm rh neg...is there more of us in Ireland? Wonder if so, why that is...
I have rh negative as well. German and French,are my largest DNA group.
I'm Irish and O RH-
I'm mostly Swedish with Irish, German, Scots and English mixed in. I look typically Swedish with blue eyes, fair skin and very naturally blonde hair. Everyone on my mom's side of the family look so similar to each other there's no doubt we are all closely related. 😊
My father’s side is all Irish and can trace back to 1600’s but stops there. Was a fire in building that had the records. Also Scottish ancestry on my mother’s side. Also so English and Native American from my grandmothers. Have fair skin, green eyes and reddish hair. Also had problems with high iron amounts when was a kid never knew was Irish trait
My South Carolinian maternal family traces back to Rory O'Moore 🍀
Rory O Moore was alive around 1600. There is no way you could trace ancestry that far back. Also any records prior to 1901 were destroyed in the fire at the Custom's House in 1921 during the Civil War.
@dennishilton2543 North Carolina colonial Gov James Moore 1702 was a direct descendant of Rory
Four leaf clover
I have red hair. My maternal grandmother is from Belfast Northern Ireland. But she had dark as coal brown eyes and black hair that never really turned grey.
I got my red hair from my paternal great grandmother.
My Mums family also came from Belfast area and they were mostly all dark, they used to joke there was a native North American dude in the woodpile. Poor Gran, she put put up with a lot of kidding when the boys were young.
Mom’s family (Burnside, which is a Scotch surname) came to America around 1830 from Enniskillen Fermanagh County. Northern Ireland. This information was passed down through the generations. Have yet to do a DNA test because it looks like my dad’s side is mostly British, with a little Irish, German, and French according to Family Search.
Green eyes!
In my late forties I did my DNA test. Both my parents are Irish. I am 94% Irish and 6% Italian! A do have a bit of a perma-tan but blue eyes. There isn’t any history of an Italian connection so not sure when that came in to the Family?
The Roman Empire absorbed the Celts into their empire as Britons, Gauls, Boii, Galatians, and Celtiberians. However, Celtic culture survived in more remote parts of Europe, like Ireland and northern Britain.
Irish have unique personality traits.. predispodition for scrapping, hoarding, disorganisation and general chaos.. they have a knack for business and know how to make money but not save it.. can be related to drinking problems. They love to sing dance and the most unique trait is their PASSION.. depth of feeling, which is almost totally lacking in the english. The irish love slapstick comedy, practical jokes and they really are naturally lucky people. My mother used to say about my Dad.. 'fell in sh*t , comes up smelling like a rose'.. this was almost certainly related to another irish trait of his: 'the gift of the gab' which lent him the ability to get out of almost any sticky situation effortlessly.. I often marvelled what a natural born actor he was and how he could turn a difficult situation around in no time.. somewhere I have written down a list of his classic sayings which are all hilarious..
Expat born in England-39% Irish, 28% British Isles, 19% Scandanavian & 18% Estonian. Those were shockers although the Irish doesn't surprise me as maternal Great Grandfather Irish.
I have the red hair & green eyes & apparently, I look Irish:) That came out of the mouth of a real Irish man here in the States. I kept quiet, just smiled as I'm from the Birmingham area & didn't want to disappoint him:)
Interesting, all of my ancestors are Irish. Some came over to Scotland during the Great Hunger, most stayed there. My red headed , blue eyed mother looks Viking - tall, red -auburn hair, blue eyes, very blue-white skin - they came from around Dublin. My father's people are from Donegal, darker hair, blue-grey eyes, light cream skin. I have my tall father's dark hair with a touch of my mother's red, green eyes and pale cream skin. I'm only five foot although both parents are tall. My sisters both look totally different from me and each other. One has honey brown hair, brown eyes and sallow skin - my mother's grandfather was black Irish as was his wife. She gave me her Spanish (Basque) first name. My other sister has my mother's red hair and blue eyes but not her height - she's only 5 foot. A very odd genetic mix in one family. In Donegal there was very little genetic change. It's in the North but not part of the UK's 'Northern' Ireland so we didn't get the Scots during the clearances. I thought about getting my DNA done but I thought I'd best keep it private. I probably have Iberian, Viking and Celtic roots.
How do you know what the Vikings looked like - they very mixed?
- You can;t accept that the Irish could have red hair and blue eyes?
Stop with the "Black Irish" that you invented.
“If you’re Irish, come into the parlour, there’s a welcome there for you”. Thank you for this. It’s always interesting to find out why we are, who we are. My Irish goes way back, well I thought all the way back to Adam and Eve, imagine my shock when my daughter studying science informed me that, in actual fact, it goes all the way back to Bacteria. Apparently according to Science, we all started off from Bacteria, and I thought the Vikings were bad! Hahahaha! 😂
Thank you
My father's side was all irish. They came to America in 1700 from county Clare. My ancestors name was Bridget clarey. I think, if I remember right, she was only 17 years old.
Thanks!
I think Irish people are so handsome and beautiful.
I'm ugly 😀
Thanks 😂
I am 62% Irish. I always feel this pull to go to Ireland. It's like it's calling me home.
I have no idea who my ancient ancestors were, but I am certain that I am.
That is the best to "be." 🙂
Pog mo thoin
"Why the Irish DNA is so Unique" is a statement, not a question. It does not take a question mark.
That bugged the shit out of me too. I got over it though.
They certainly are beautiful people.
My Dad was a redhead. He was 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Scottish and 1/2 English.
49% Irish, thanks to my Dad's parents. Ive traced my Irish ancestry back to 1770s, Tyrone, Donegal, Monaghan, Longford and lastly Armagh. Wee bit Irish on my Mum's side my 2X greats. My paternal grandmother had red hair & a temper to go with it lol. I'm auburn & have the temper too. Back in Ireland in next couple of months but only a short hop from Scotland.
My dad and I both recently did a DNA test and I found out I am 60% Irish..my dad was 15%..we are both from the US I was surprised about my results
I wonder if the reason why so many deformities, mental, and physical issues arise in people from the US, is because of their dilation of pureblooded DNA. It gets mixed. I'm irish, german, macedonian, and yugoslavian. Some people have less mix, some have a lot more. I wonder if this could be a bad thing?
Dugan. DNA testing was amazing. All these generations we are now swamp people, of NOLA .LOL. I have the Cystic Fibrosis gene.
I've got the map of Ireland all over my body. Freckles !
Ireland is great. Toughest hardest workers.
Irish both sides for centuries. I have dark brown hair, green eyes, 5ft 7, w pale skin. Our history was passed down via Oral Tradition rather than the English version. Obviously very different than what they reported. There was plenty of food other than just potatoes, such as, chickens, hens, cows, sheep etc., we got to feed them while renting the land which had once belonged to us but stolen by the English. The food was used for their soldiers (also many Irish men forced to don their uniform or forfeit their family) on English ships headed out to colonise other countries. Ireland was the first colony of the English (over 800yrs) and used as a port for their adventurers.
I have some Irish.This is interesting. I didn't associate red hair with Ireland. My grandmother, dad, his sisters, my daughter and her kids all have red hair. The red heads in my family are so stubborn. I don't know if that's a trait or not.
There is not really any region of Ireland that is very different genetically. The genetic distance is miniscule between each different areas. The Donegal region was more isolated so a bit more "unique". The eastern Irish naturally enough are closer to Britain but no part of Ireland has a distinct genetic cluster. In a British Isles context the Orcadians and Welsh are more distinct. Also the Irish today owe the majority of their genetics to the Bronze Age Bell Beakers and the Irish are most similar to their NW European neighbours.
Ireland is a small country...genes "perculate" through a small country so they kind of look the same to outsiders.
Believe it or not Danes and Norwegians and Swedes can tell each other apart.
In the old days you found a mate not far from your home village. (No swiping left or right on your iPad back then.)
Donegal UI Neil DNA , and they tend to look more Scottish, especially like the Highlanders. Donegal had a lot of Gallowglass settlers.
The Englih today owe their origins to ancient Bronze Age people. A little secret...so does everybody else in Europe.
Traces no huge percent of Irish blood..80 percent 10 British 9 Scandinavian trace Iberian peninsula.Second generation Irish American.. l regret giving out my DNA 🧬.. black hair grey eyes
Brazil please translate into Portuguese Brazil🇧🇷...I discovered that I have Germanic ancestry after my ancestry DNA test...my results...I am of the paternal haplogroup .i...i1.
Europe
34%
Western Europe
17%
Germany, France and the Netherlands
British Isles
Iberia
12%
Italy
4%
Eastern Europe
< 2%...Africa
59%
Mina Coast
40%
West Africa
8%
East Africa
6%
Great Lakes Region (Eastern Bantu Peoples)
West Kenya
Senegambia
< 3%
Mande
< 3%
Mbuti
< 2%..Paternal Lineage
Your haplogroup is:
I
Born between 35 and 28 thousand years ago, haplogroup I represents one of the first peoples of Europe, having several descendant lineages that spread throughout the European territory during the last Ice Age, having its maximum frequency in the Balkans. It is one of the most numerous haplogroups among European men, being the second largest paternal lineage found on the continent (second only to the R lineage). Its I1 branch is related to Nordic Europe, ancestor of the Germanic tribes and Vikings, while I2 is strongly related to Neolithic cultures. Maternal Lineage
Its haplogroup is:
A
Haplogroup A emerged in Asia about 40 to 60 thousand years ago. Descended from the N lineage, representatives of this haplogroup can be found from Central Asia to Siberia and regions of the Americas. It is believed that this lineage originated in Asia and continued towards America, passing through the Bering Strait during the last Ice Age.
I ought to take an ancestry DNA test instead of just speculation.
Great video, but the paintings from 9:55 to 12:59 are lovely but not Irish scenery but I have learned lots too
My ancestors were Odom's, O'Reilly, Childers.. Childers was Americanized to Childress.
My mother‘s name was Murphy her father from Liverpool.We did have a genetic test and her application came out as I which I believe is from the Vikings.
I meant the I haplogen
My mother’s ancestry was from the Aaron islands on the west coast. Two of my children have her red hair, very much from that area
My maiden surname was O'Neal. Got any history on that surname?
My daughter did a DNA test and it came back that she had Irish in her which was shocking to both myself and my ex-husband who is African American. I can trace my genetics lineage all the way back to 900 I'm Scottish, French, Scandinavian, Spanish, Portuguese, Jewish, and English. No one that we can find has any connection to Ireland. My mother had red hair and she's Spanish and Portuguese on her father's side and Scandinavian on her mother's. I have green eyes and I'm the only one with green eyes in my entire family.
Disappointed in that this was really just an overview, and didn't get into the nuts n bolts of haplotypes, origins, migratory patterns, etcetera...
Already knew I was mostly of Irish descent. On both sides. But different dna tests showed different dna markers which still said I was mostly Irish, at least 1/4 Norwegian (not a surprise, my grandfather was from Norway), and then one test also said I was about 5% Italian and 5% admix asian. Tracing trees, one of my mother's grandmother is a dead end with a unique name, so it may be her family moved to Ireland from Italy, and she grew up and married my great grandfather there before moving to the US. And the Asian admix came down the side of the family that were world colonizers, so it makes sense that I'd have their gathered bits. What was most interesting was following my family names back. My mother's side is from Clare and my father side is from Cork. And following names back, my family had been intermarrying for centuries. I'm my own cousin several times over and several times removed by immigration during The Great Hunger. No need to tell my elderly mother that.
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Iberes means Irish... they are decedent's of Isrealites. Maccabees left Cypress, Greece, Palestine, and fled to the Iberian peninsula. They spoke Gaelic, Gaelic comes from "Galilee" they would become the Gauls, Gaels. The "Maccabees" are today "MacAbees" The Scottish Declaration of Independence actually has this information, and states that they are decedent's of the Isrealites. They were the Spartans, and they were architects. For instance Edinburgh means New Eden. It has Greek architecture all over it! It's beautiful!
67.7% Welsh, Irish snd Scottish 16.7% Scandinavian and the rest iderian. Redhead , green eyes and fair skin. Think I might be a bit Irish though a Scot.
On my GrandFather's side my ancestors founded a town in Czechoslovakia in 1050 A.D. & are descendants of Genghis Khan & my Grandfather's wife was an immigrant from Cork, Ireland. Idk if either of these explain my rare B- blood type or my incredible Immune system that have cured me of things usually fatal? Also weird that myself, daughter & grandchildren are allergic to Blackberry but after eating it once we develop immunity (I also had hepatitis B once & developed immunity & have had Hepatitis C for decades without adverse effects) ? 🇺🇲
Both grandmothers were Irish!
Langan and Kilbride were their maiden names! I’ve been trying to find info on them,and any family!
I’m a redhead. 78% Scottish/Irish, and the rest Iberian Peninsula and Eastern Asia (Turkey, Greece etc) which this video helps explain. I’m female though so that’s just my maternal side. Women apparently can’t do paternal DNA, but I suspect it would be close to the same.
I suspect we all have a little Viking DNA in us. As far as I know, I have Irish, Scottish, English, Dutch, and French in my DNA, but suspect my family also has Viking DNA. I was a true strawberry blonde when younger. Now it is just gray mostly and little of my strawberry blonde. 😁
We all have celtic blood in united kingdom
I took a DNA test to find out that I’m 69% English Irish. My mother had Auburn red hair and my first grandson had blonde hair with a red beard and my son has blonde hair red beard and his youngest son is completely redheaded. I was also 16% Iberian. 6% finish. And there was something else I can’t remember but then there was other. Didn’t tell me what the other is.
I love being Irish
I was fascinated to learn my DNA results said that I was 35% English and Eastern Europe, 22% Scottish and 20% Irish so now I’ve been trying to figure out who in my family tree came from where but I don’t think I can trace it that far back because all my people think they came from England and Germany…but we must be from the dark haired Irish side of the genetics. I’m not aware of any family members that have naturally red hair darn it. 😂
My Irish ancestry came in the 1800s they came to Connecticut not Ellis Island. I am Roman Catholic though not Irish Catholic!!! I am proud of my gentetic diversity my Celtic genetics show through more then the Italian but my great grandfather from the Azores was a natural redhead handsome man.
I have always wanted to visit Ireland and Australia the only 2 countries I haven’t visited but I am old now and not interested in leaving my country home anymore.
It has been suggested that JESUS was Irish ☘️
Well HE was 33 single and still living with His Mum!?
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Just for fun 🤩
I think you're on to something ❤
Do Irish have the gene for Dupertons Contractor? Excuse spelling. Not sure who I got it from. 47% Irish.
@horseyperson12 you have inherited Dupeytrens contracture from the Vikings ( a orthopedic nurse)
Some do have Dupuytren's contracture. The Viking disease. I certainly do...my fingers curled up as I aged.
I must have a Viking Raider somewhere in my Irish ancestry.
The Celts did not have a big impact on the Irish genetically. What is often said to be Celtic culture is just indigenous Irish or more Gaelic and linked with Western Scotland. Also the Irish are closest to Scots and other British Isles populations. There is not a link to Galica. There is more a link with the Bretons.
There is very similar link to the Bretons in north west france